OCR Notes - 1

There are people who only appreciates the end result. Then there are people who appreciates the struggle. 

FFT can help figuring out the text orientation.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/fourier.htm

I wil first try to implement this.

Next step will be filters http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/filtops.htm

tesseract-ocr looks great
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

This python implementation looks promising http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

Page layout analysis

a good book on OCR problems
 Optical character recognition : an illustrated guide to the frontier / by Stephen V. Rice, George Nagy, Thomas A. Nartker.

Rice, Stephen V.

http://libencore.nus.edu.sg/iii/encore/record/C%7CRb2109828%7CSoptical+character+recognition%7COrightresult%7CX5?lang=eng&suite=def

Installation of opencv on mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9hYiMXLZRs

http://www.opencvpython.blogspot.sg/2011/04/welcome-to-opencv-python.html

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide

opencv+python+mac nightmare 

Nice blog with many functionality implemented 
http://felix.abecassis.me/2011/10/opencv-rotation-deskewing/